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Poster of The Optimist

The Optimist

2026 · 1 h 42 · Czechia, United States · English

  • Drama

Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.

Directed by
Finn Taylor
Written by
Finn Taylor

Cast